[Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

[Steve Coast]

I actually really like the idea of State mailing lists, could work, worth a try.

Steve

> On Oct 14, 2015, at 6:30 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> To me, one of the biggest things is about having all mappers act
> reasonably toward each other.  We have some people that I'd describe as
> "lone wolf mappers".  If they just add things, that's fine.  But if they
> are retagging motorways as trunk, or deleting railroads, or otherwise
> being hostile, it's a huge turnoff for others to be part of the
> community.  In contrast, there are a lot of people that talk with the
> other local mappers and it's far more friendly.
> 
> So I have two concrete suggestions:
> 
> - in each state, have a state mailinglist, limited to people who
>  actively map in the state, because they live there, or because they
>  drive there to work.  Explicitly discourage non-locals from joining.
>  These lists would have more of a "people you might meet for a geobeer
>  session someday" flavor, rather than people you've never met and
>  won't.
> 
> - have project leadership be much more aggressive about requiring people
>  that make edits other than local additions to engage with commenter
>  and be part of the community, or be banned.  a few prolific editors
>  that annoy many others are a net minus to the community, and I think
>  that's pretty clear by now.
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